Quotes About Innovation

When you're a startup, your edge is that you don't have that many customers. So you can build a really strong relationship with them.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

I like the idea that I can make a big difference to a startup in a short period of time.

In 'That Will Never Work,' I give readers a clear-eyed insider's look into how one of the least likely startups grew into one of the world's most successful companies.

Startups often have to do dubious things.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

We are already seeing the creation of a new kind of network based on friendships: Startups, which are often founded by friends, are the beginning of something that could reshape social relations.

I aim to combine all the things I do in a comprehensive and holistic fashion that benefits startups and the people who make them grow.

Before, companies and startups had to lay up all this capital for data centers and servers, and take your scarce resource, which in most companies is engineers, and have them work on the undifferentiated heavy lifting of infrastructure. What the cloud has done is completely flipped that model on its head so that you only pay for what you consume.

The Italy of my children will be at head of Europe, economically. Because Italy has all the conditions to be the country of the startups, the country of artisans and quality, and the country of the big companies.

When people say they can't find African-American startups to invest in, it just sounds a little crazy to me.

I've always had a passion for technology, photography, startups, and connecting people. Bringing those aspects together made me successful.

The main thing to know about me is that I'm a champion of entrepreneurs and the startups they build. They are my rock stars. If in doubt, I side with them, and that's clear from my writing.

Doing startups is all about making mistakes.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

The most important thing in startups is getting a product to market, as imperfect as it may be, and then iterating on it and continually making it better. A first rev of a site that has a few typos may not be perfect, but it was the start of something that I deeply believed in.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

I want something completely new and different to happen, and lots of it. Stuff that makes us change the way we think about a market or the world. Something that inspires a new generation of crazy startups doing crazy things.

At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.